[Eversfield, Charles, or Samuel Evers]

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (211 x 128mm.), later half calf over marbled boards, speckled edges, one area of soiling to title page, head of spine rubbed

ESTC T90227; Ghani p.125; Wilson p.112 (anonymous); not in Atabey or Blackmer

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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RARE. The list of subscribers numbers only 134, most from the country around Horsham, the place of publication. Only two copies are recorded at auction in the last thirty years, the Ghani copy (sold in these rooms, 23 October 1997) and the Brooke-Hitching copy (sold in these rooms, 30 September 2014).

Published anonymously but generally attributed to either Charles Eversfield or Samuel Evers, this work described the author's journey up the Tigris to Baghdad, then on to Aleppo and the Mediterranean, including "his observations of customs, town life, encounters with local governors and Sheikhs, constant wranglings over money and the progress of the current armed conflict between the Turks, with their Arab army, and the Persians in the region of Basra" (Ghani).